Chapter 2 Quiz — 1984

Why does Mrs. Parsons come to Winston's door in Chapter 2?

• To borrow Victory Coffee from him
• To ask him to unclog her kitchen sink
• To warn him about a telescreen malfunction
• To deliver a message from Tom Parsons

What youth organization do the Parsons children belong to?

• The Youth League
• The Junior Anti-Sex League
• The Spies
• The Thought Police Cadets

What do the Parsons children accuse Winston of being?

• A member of the Brotherhood
• A Eurasian spy
• A traitor and thought-criminal
• An enemy of Big Brother

Why are the Parsons children upset, according to their mother?

• They were denied extra chocolate rations
• Their father forgot to take them to the Two Minutes Hate
• They cannot attend a public hanging of Eurasian prisoners
• They were told they are too young to join the Youth League

What phrase does O'Brien speak in Winston's dream?

• "Big Brother is watching you"
• "Freedom is slavery"
• "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness"
• "The Brotherhood will prevail"

What position does O'Brien hold in the Party?

• He is a member of the Outer Party
• He is a member of the Inner Party
• He is a Thought Police officer
• He is the head of the Ministry of Truth

What evidence does Winston have that O'Brien might be a secret dissident?

• O'Brien passed him a secret note at a rally
• O'Brien once criticized Big Brother in a whisper
• Nothing more than a single fleeting glance exchanged at a gathering
• O'Brien was seen reading a forbidden book

How does Winston injure himself leaving the Parsons flat?

• He trips over a toy on the floor
• Mrs. Parsons accidentally shuts the door on his hand
• The Parsons boy fires a catapult at the back of his neck
• He cuts himself on a broken pipe

True or False: Mrs. Parsons successfully disciplines her children and stops them from harassing Winston.

True or False: Winston reflects that children in Oceania have been trained to spy on and denounce their own parents.

In the context of 1984, what does it mean to be "vaporized"?

• To be sent to a forced labor camp in a remote area
• To be arrested, executed, and erased from all records so no evidence of your existence remains
• To be publicly humiliated at a rally and stripped of Party membership
• To be transferred to a different province of Oceania against your will

What does the word "ineffectual" mean as used to describe Mrs. Parsons's attempts to calm her children?

• Extremely aggressive and forceful
• Thoughtful and carefully considered
• Not producing the desired effect; powerless
• Deliberately cruel and dismissive

What is "thoughtcrime" in Orwell's Oceania?

• The act of speaking against the Party in a public setting
• Holding unapproved or unorthodox thoughts that deviate from Party ideology
• Failing to participate enthusiastically in the Two Minutes Hate
• Reading banned literature from before the Revolution